Chen Mo, a top analyst with the Ministry of State Security, wakes up as Chen Mo, a doomed agent at the Shanghai station of the Military Statistics Bureau in 1937. Japanese collaborators and spies close in from the front, while internal power struggles threaten him from behind. He’s in a dead-end from the start. But in his eyes, the enemy’s schemes are laid bare as streams of information: in newspaper type, clothes, and speech. He accurately predicts every raid by 76, deftly exploits the tensions between the Military Statistics Bureau and the Japanese, and repeatedly gets crucial intelligence to “the other side.” Within the Bureau, he is a lucky charm; to the Japanese and their collaborators, a nightmare. Meanwhile, the underground Communist organization is curious about this mysterious ally. Watch as he turns intelligence into a blade, weaving an invisible spy network of his own amid the flames of war to protect his country and its people until dawn.
